Simone Vegliò is a Researcher based at the Institute for Urban Research and the Department of Urban Studies at Malmö University. He holds a PhD in Geography (King’s College London, 2019) and his research lies at the intersection of urban and political geography, examining socio-material, environmental, geoeconomic, and geopolitical transformations across historical and contemporary contexts, with particular attention to the distinct spatialities underlying knowledge production.

Vegliò’s recent research focuses on the implementation of global infrastructure. His current project investigates how agribusiness ports structure the vast soybean complex in South America’s River Plate basin, analyzing socio-environmental and geopolitical impacts, as well as China’s role in the region. Within collective research agendas, his work has contributed to theoretical and methodological debates on the relationship between infrastructure and urbanization.

Vegliò has also engaged with South American urbanization from a historical and postcolonial perspective, studying the relationship between urbanization, modernity, and geopolitics through analyses of architectural transformations in capital cities, reflecting on how built environments materialize projects of nation-state building. He has taught modules in the broad fields of Human Geography and Global Politics at Malmö University, King’s College London, University College of London, and Leuphana University.

Selected journal articles and book chapters include: The flammable city: Infrastructure, temporalities, and social struggles in Dock Sud, Buenos Aires (Urban Studies, 2026), A dialogue on global infrastructure-led urbanization: Concepts and reorientations (Dialogues in Human Geography, 2025), A Postcolonial BRI? Dependency, Development, and Geopolitics in China-Latin America relations (BUP, 2025), Inhabiting the Extensions (Dialogues in Human Geography, 2025), José Martí and Antonio Gramsci: The World as a Radical Geography (Antipode, 2024), Subverting geopolitics: the reinvention of geography in post-revolutionary Mexico (TIBG, 2023), Postcolonizing Planetary Urbanization: Aníbal Quijano and an Alternative Genealogy of the Urban (IJURR, 2021).

Vegliò is author of the book The Urban Enigma: Time, Autonomy, and Postcolonial Transformations in Latin America (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020).